How Sociable are You? How Much Does it Matter? Patrick Blessinger International HETL Association Like many of my fellow educators, my academic training consisted mainly in developing cognitive abilities with scant regard to the role emotions play in the learning process. But in my role as a teacher, I have come to realize that emotions do play a large part in the learning process. This has required me to change my way of thinking about my role as a teacher in the teaching-learning process and about how I engage socially with students in and out of the classroom. Dr. William Kennedy, Director of Michigan Tech’s Center for Teaching and Learning, provides an insightful article about the relationship between learning and emotions. In essence, he notes that our emotions, and hence our sociability, is hardwired into our brains. Hence, teaching and learning is, to some degree, not just a cognitive process...

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Dr. Patrick Blessinger is an adjunct associate professor of education (St. John's University), math and science teacher (New York State Education Department), and research scientist (HETL Association). Dr. Blessinger founded one of the world's largest networks of educators and he has pioneered several innovations in education. He collaborates with academic leaders and scholars around the world on meaningful ways to improve educational policy and outcomes as well as strengthen democracy and human rights by creating sustainable models of education and lifelong learning by working at the nexus of theory, policy, and practice. These collaborations have yielded many scholarly publications and initiatives, as well as many new theories, principles, models, methods, frameworks, taxonomies, and concepts.

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